But he had delayed accepting this job, and as he was leaving to come home to Papa in response to our telegram, he dropped a postcard to Miss McCrady, head of the Harvard Appointment Office, asking her please to write Northwestern authorities and explain the circumstances.

What expands the qualities of further bodily response is a very subtle nod forward to counteract a common backward startle pattern, coupled with an upward movement of the head away from the body that lengthens the spine.

While the Dines anemometer had an error of only 1 % at it did not respond very well to low winds due to the poor response of the flat plate vane required to turn the head into the wind.

In 2007 President Paul W. Gooch wrote that Gate House undertook an " escalating series of actions " that were " defiant " and " disparaging of women ", in response to Gate members constructing a 2. 5-metre snow penis and placing a cooked pig's head in an Annesley bathroom.

Then-Bengals defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau ( who would later be the team's head coach from 2000 – 2002 ) created the zone blitz in the 1980s in response to the West Coast Offense.

DOCTOR might provide a generic response, for example, responding to " My head hurts " with " Why do you say your head hurts?

* Conversion disorder ( flailing and jerking of the head, often in response to severe personal stress such as physical abuse )

This action was taken in response to an appeal obtained from the governor general and to a request for assistance from the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, without consulting the island's head of state, Queen Elizabeth II, Commonwealth institutions or other usual diplomatic channels ( as had been done in Anguilla ).

In response, Sepp Blatter, head of FIFA, joked that they would have to " refrain from sexual activity " while in Qatar.

Senate Majority Leader Dole and Gingrich appointed Kemp to head a tax reform commission, ( the Kemp Commission ), in response to voter concern that the tax code had become too complicated.

For example, if the suspect nodded his head up and down in response to the question " did you kill the victim " the conduct is testimonial, it is the same as saying " yes I did " and Miranda would apply.

When the " patient " exceeded the very small knowledge base, ELIZA might provide a generic response, for example, responding to " My head hurts " with " Why do you say your head hurts?

The earliest magnetic recording systems simply applied the unadulterated ( baseband ) input signal to a recording head, resulting in recordings with poor low-frequency response and high distortion.

Within short order, the addition of a suitable direct current to the signal was found to reduce distortion by operating the head substantially within its linear response region.

It is also equipped with an amorphous tape head capable of reproducing 20 – 20, 000 Hz response, a gold plated headphone jack, and a 2 mm thick aluminum body.

Pearson's version not only conflated details of both slapping incidents but falsely reported that the private in question was visibly " out of his head ", telling Patton to " duck down or the shells would hit him " and that in response " Patton struck the soldier, knocking him down.

A saccade is also an involuntary consequence of turning of the head to one side or another in response to a startling noise off to the side, or a sudden motion detected in the visual periphery ( no reference ).

In response to the ( in his view ) pejorative connotation of the term falsetto, Giles refuses to use it, calling the upper register " head voice.

Higher speeds used in professional recorders are prone to cause " head bumps ," which are fluctuations in low-frequency response.

In response, Gort, a large humanoid robot, emerges from the ship and begins disintegrating the weapons present with a ray coming from a visor-like structure on its head.

The umpire's response is either to raise his index finger above his head to indicate that the batsman is out, or to clearly say " not out ", which is usually accompanied with a shake of the head.

He was named head of the Soldiers and Sailors Union, regarded as a response to the hyper-partisan Grand Army of the Republic ( GAR ).

The founding of the SANNC was in direct response to injustice against black South Africans at the hands of the government then in power.

To which his response was: " There are a number of imperfections in the new South Africa where I would have hoped that things would be better, but on balance I think we have basically achieved what we set out to achieve.

On Independence Day 1821, in response to those who advocated American support for independence movements in many South American countries, Adams gave a speech in which he said that American policy was moral support for independence movements but not armed intervention.

Although the President was unharmed, 21 people were killed in the bombing, including the South Korean deputy Prime Minister, and Burma suspended diplomatic relations in response.

Burma, which had relations with both North and South Korea, " de-recognized " the DPRK and expelled North Korean officials in response to the attempted assassination of South Korean president Chun Doo-hwan in Rangoon.

* 1965 – Vietnam War: In response to U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for " more flags " in Vietnam, Philippines President Elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.

In 1713, the Viceroyalty of New Granada ( northern South America ) was created in response to other Europeans trying to take Spanish territory in the Caribbean region.

That confession was written by the Dutch Reformed Mission Church in South Africa in response to apartheid.

Following the Armistice, South Korea and the U. S. agreed to a " Mutual Defense Treaty ", under which an attack on either party in the Pacific area would summon a response from both.

In response, the security situation deteriorated with the creation of the socialist Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen ( FLOSY ) which started to attack the NLF in a bid for power, as well as attacking the British.

* 2008 South Ossetia war – Russia invaded Georgia in response to Georgian aggression towards civilians and attack on South Ossetia.

** The European Economic Community lifts economic sanctions on South Africa in response to moves to end the apartheid system.

** In response to the end of apartheid, the International Olympic Committee readmits South Africa to the Olympics.

* November 28 – Vietnam War: In response to U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for " more flags " in Vietnam, Philippines President-elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.

* December 31 – In response to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, a group of Huguenots set sail from France and settle in the recently established Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope where, using their native skills, they establish the first South African vineyards.

Eventual Governor of Mississippi James K. Vardaman and Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina indulged in racist personal attacks in response to the invitation.

Paul Kruger, leader of the South African Republic, ( Transvaal ), issued an ultimatum of withdrawal in response to the British ultimatum by Joseph Chamberlain for uitlander rights, which escalated the situation to a state of war

The unpredictable North Korean government has tested ( or, more likely, partially fizzled ) a nuclear device, and has historically threatened to turn Seoul into a " sea of fire ", or most recently, " ashes ", in response to unspecified, but always imminent, U. S. or South Korean " aggression " against it.

The French High Commissioner in Germany André François-Poncet replied that the admiral seemed ill-informed about history and the law, stating that North Korea had attacked South Korea, and that UN forces in Korea were fighting in response to South Korean appeals for help and under the authority of the UN Security Council, which did not correspond at all to the situation with Norway in 1940.

In response to the South Carolina move, Congress passed the Force Bill, which empowered the President to use military power to force states to obey all federal laws.

In terms of public response and loss of white lives, slaveholders in the Upper South and coastal states were deeply shocked by the Nat Turner Rebellion.

While the original southern response to the Wilmot Proviso was measured, it soon became clear to the South that this long postponed attack on slavery had finally occurred.